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CHARLES E. FOSTER, OF WESTFIELD,

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MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE FOSTER MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE;

SPOOLING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 65 5,617, dated August 7, 190

Application filed January 27, 1900. Serial Ila-2,932. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. FOSTER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of lVestfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Spoofing-Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and numerals on the drawings representing like parts;

This invention has for its object the production of a novel machine for winding thread, yarn, silk, &c., either in cone or cylindrical form on suitable shells or tubes to be handled in machines in which the thread or yarn is used after winding.

The machine herein to be described is an improvement on the class of machine represented in United States Patent No. 535,616,

dated March 12, 1895. In that machine the spindle supporting the carrier or tube carrying the shell or cylinder, usually of paper or other like material, to receive the material being wound is carried by a pivoted arm and the yarn mass is sustained upon and rotated by a roller deriving its movement by friction from a rotating drum provided with a suitable groove by which to reciprocate a threadgnide, and to stop the rotation of the spindle 0 and yarn mass, whenever desired, the driving-roller is removed from contact with the periphery of said continuously-rotating drum.

In the machine referred to the thread-guide is reciprocated by or through a shoe connect- 3 5 ed therewith, which occupies a position in the spiral groove of the drum, and this shoe is frequently oiled, and at times there is too much oil applied in the groove, so that the oil gets onto the exterior of the drum and upon the driving-roller and is thence communicated to the thread or yarn being wound, thus injuring the same.

To obviate any possibility of the yarn being soiled by oil from the drum or from the 5 driving-roller, I have herein provided to rotate the driving-rollers independently of the drums and to do this have applied the driving-rollers-a plurality of them-to one shaft driven positively by suitable gearing, to be described, and preferably there will be two or more such shafts, each having aplurality of driving-rolls contacting with each drum, that depending upon the number of simultaneous windings to be carried on in the machine. Herein I have also connected with the arms carrying the spindles referred to other arms, to which are attached notched or toothed rods adapted to be engaged either by hand or by a moving device actuated by or through the stop-motion mechanism on the breakage of thread to remove the yarn mass containing the broken thread from the roller employed to actuate it.

In the machine to be herein described the driving rollers are rotated continuously whether the arms containing the spindles are in their operative or inoperative position.

Figure 1 is a partial cross-section representing a sufficient portion of a machine of Well-known construction with my improvements added to enable my invention to be understood; and Fig. 2 is a partial front elevation of a machine containing my invention, the machine being broken out to save space on the drawing.

The framework A,the main shaft Atherein, the drum A having suitable spiral grooves A the rod 6, supported in said framework and occupying aposition'parallel to said shaft A, the stands f, having suitable bearings to 8o sustain a shaft to be described and also suite. ably shaped to receive a bar 5, on which is reciprocated the thread-guide 4, driven by means of a shoe 2,connected with said threadguide loosely and entering the spiral groove of the drum, and the stop-motion devices, including the drop Wire b the notched lever b, the slide bflhaving atits under side a cam projection b cooperating with the upper face of the cam b, sustained by a bracket b the rotating shaft ct ,having the ratchetwheel (1 the lever f forming the essential operative device of a stop-motion mechanism, the shaft a deriving its motion from asuitable sprocket-chain a (shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2,) 5 it surrounding a sprocket-gear a connected with the hub of a gear a mounted to turn about a stud a held in the frame A, and deriving its motion from atoothed Wheel 0, on the shaft A, are and may be all substantially ICO as shown in another application, Serial No. 2,931, filed by me on the 27th day of January,

A. D. 1900, so said devices need not be herein more particularly described.

Herein I have provided the rod 6 with a plurality of hubs 6, connected to said rods by suitable set-screws e said hubs receivingand sustaining adjustably by means of setscrews 10 the shanks of suitable supports 6, having downturned ends which receive suitable fulcra e, on whichis mounted suitable arms D, which may be substantially such as the armsrepresented in said application, each arm having, as therein provided for, a suitable spindle a, upon which is mounted a carrier or tube 0, adapted to receive and hold a suitable shell, as d, preferably of conical shape, but which may be cylindrical or of any other form, according to the shape desired for the wound thread mass.

Each arm D has operatively connected with itan extension 6 to the lower end of which is jointed at e a bar e", represented as toothed or notched at its under side and provided near its outer end with a suitable knob or handle e to be engaged by the operator.

Herein the lever f is connected, as provided for in said application, with a rockshaft f but instead of the arms therein represented as extended inwardly toward the axis of rotation of the drum and acting upon journal-lifters, shown as dowel-pins, I have provided the rock-shaft f with arms, as f one arm for each drum, and have extended said arms upwardly from said rock-shaft and provided each with a tooth 12, which is engaged positively by one of the teeth or notches of the bar e so that whenever the lever f is moved by or through the operation of the stop-motion mechanism, which may be of any usual or suitable construction capable of moving the lever f whenever the thread breaks, the arm f through itsv engagement with the bar 6 will pull the said bar in the direction of the arrow thereon in Fig. 2and immediately remove the thread mass from contact with the driving-roller. So, also, whenever the operator desires to remove the wound thread mass from contact with the driven roller to remove the mass, it having been wound to a predetermined size, or to apply a new shell, or to piece up ends, or for any other purpose he may pull the rod 6 outwardly, drawing the teeth thereof over the tooth of the arm f, and by releasing the bar in any position desired the thread mass or its spindle may be placed at anydesired distance from the winding-roll.

A series of winding-rollers M are mounted upon like shafts f f preferably a shaft at each side of the drum, and viewing Fig. 2 the shaft f at the right-hand side of the drum has connected with it at one end a suitable belt-pulley f, which is driven by a belt f passing over a pulley f on a counter-shaft f driven by a belt f embracing pulleys f f respectively, on the main shaft A and said counter-shaft. At the left-hand side of the drum, however, (see Fig. 1,) the shaft f carrying the winding-rollers M, has mounted upon it near one end a pinion, as n, which is engaged by a second pinion a, suitably connected with a short shaft n suitably sustained in the frame end A and provided with a belt-pulley 01 said belt-pulley receiving over it a suitable belt 71*, driven from a pulley 01 also fast on the counter-shaftf the two gears 02 and n being employed for the reason that the rotation of the winding-rollers M must be in opposite directions in order to turn the thread masses t and t in the direc tions of the arrows marked thereon in Fig. 2.

In a machineof the class described in the patent referred to it will be obvious that the speed of winding depends upon the surface speed of the winding-rollers driven by the drum; but at times it is desirable in some classes of work to be able to control the speed of the driving-rolls irrespective of the speed of the drum, as thereby the speed of the winding-rollers may be increased to a point which would not be practical if they derived their motion of rotation solely from the drum, and hence one reason for fixing a series of winding-rollers on one common driving-shaft and rotating said shaft independently of the drum.

It will be understood that the speed at which the winding-rollers may be driven may be determined at will by a change of the pulleys n f on the counter-shaft or bya change of the pulleys f n and this facility for changing the speed of rotation of the windingfrolls also enables me to change the direction of one coil or wind of thread or yarn with relation to another coil or wind, to thereby pro-. vide for any desired appearance of yarn in building up the yarn mass in conical or cylindrical form, it being understood that the appearance of the exterior of the yarn mass may be changed to suit by simply changing the relative speeds of rotation of the windingroller with relation to the speed of reciprocation of the thread-guide.

The winding-rollers herein employed are supposed to be the same as indicated in said application-that is, they are composed of a sleeve having a fixed section and a plurality of loose sectionsand the thread-guide at each end of its reciprocating stroke will meet a suitable spring, as 6, connected with a hub fixed on the rock-shaft f and having the depending arm f and the drop devices or detectors b will move up and down through suitable rests h in usual manner and common to said application.

In Fig. 1 I have broken out from in front of the thread-guide the usual bar 12, partially shown as connected with the stand f, which acts against the outer side ofthe thread-guide,

forming a track over which the threadrguide The bars 6 are herein represented as notched and the arms f as toothed, said teeth and notches forming a variable engaging device, and instead of said notches and teeth I may use any suitable or equivalent means whereby the bars and arms may be coupled together to operate with relation each to the other, as herein provided for.

In a machine where the rotation of the winding rollers is stopped whenever the thread breaks, or if fully wound, the strain of starting up from a condition of rest a number of winding-rollers is considerable, and such strain in starting is done away with when the rollers are driven at all times.

By the term spirality of wind or winding I mean the separation of a thread laid once about the shell from the next layer wound on the shell.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Inaspooling-machine, aseries of threadguides, grooved drums for actuating thesame, a shaft containing a plurality of sectional winding-rolls, means to rotate said shaft and its rolls, a plurality of arms having spindles to sustain shells upon which the thread or yarn is to be wound, stop-motion devices, and bars connected with said arms and opera- 7 tively engaged by said stop-motion devices to remove the wound thread masses from contact with the driving-rolls on the breakage of the thread being wound.

2. A winding-roll, means to operate it, and an arm having an extension, a spindle mounted on said arm, and a carrier to receive and rotate a shell upon which thread or yarn is to be wound, combined with a bar connected with said extension, the movement of said bar removing the thread mass from contact with the driving-roll, and means cooperating with said bar to lock the latter in any position in which it may be left.

In aspooling-machine, a drum, means to support and rotate it, a series of threadguides, means to reciprocate them, a shaft parallel with the axis of rotation of the drum, a plurality of sectional winding-rollers mounted on said shaft, means to rotate said shaft positively and with it said rolls, a series of arms one for each sectional roller, each arm having a spindle and carrying a shell to receive thread or yarn, and stop-motion devices to move said arms and remove the thread masses wound on said shells from driving contact with said winding-rollers leaving them at rest.

-:t. In a spoofing-machine, a drum having a dles to carry each a shell to be rotated by said winding-rollers.

5. In a spoofing-machine, a series of arms to sustain spindles provided with shells to receive thread or yarn, a shaft having a plurality of winding-rollers, means to rotate said shaft and the plurality of rollers carried thereby, each roller rotating a contacting shell or its yarn mass, a notched bar connected with each of said arms, and a series of stop-motion devices each having a tooth in engagement with said notched bar and adapted to remove a thread mass from contact with one of said rollers whenever a thread or yarn going to a thread mass breaks.

6. In a spoofing-machine, a pivoted arm having an extension, a spindle mounted on said arm, a sustaining-carrier to receive and rotate a shell upon which thread or yarn is to be wound, combined with a toothed bar connected with said extension, the engagement and movement of said bar turning the arm carrying said spindle and putting the latter in its inoperative position.-

7. In a spoolingmachine, an actuatingshaft,a plurality of thread-guides mounted at opposite sides the longitudinal center of said shaft, means carried by said shaft to reciprocate said thread-guides, bearings located at opposite sides the longitudinal center of the thread-guide-actuating shaft, a plurality of rollercarrying shafts parallel with the threadguide-actuating shaft, a series of windingrollers carried by each of said roller-carrying shafts, an independent rotatable shaft, and means connecting it with and to rotate the roller-carrying shafts independently of the thread-guide-actuating shaft, whereby the speed of the roller-carrying shaft may be changed at will without necessarily changing the speed of the th read-guide-actuatin g shaft. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES F. FOSTER. Witnesses:

A. F. LILLEY, C. K. GAMBROSE. 

